Don’t forget this month’s All Bugs Good and Bad Webinar will take place this Friday, April 6 at 2:00 pm Eastern time.  Ants are the number one reported nuisance pest and come in all shapes and sizes with an incredibly wide variety of nesting and eating habits. In this webinar presented by Dr. Fudd Graham… Read more »

EPA’s Indoor Environments Division supports National Healthy Schools Day on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Join school administrators, facility managers, custodians, teachers, school nurses, parents and community advocates from schools across the country in celebrating National Healthy Schools Day. Use the day to take the necessary steps to effectively manage the indoor air quality in your… Read more »

New issue of IPM Insights now available online. In this Issue you will find the following articles and information: How IPM Works as Risk Management IPM can reduce actual risks—not just the financial effects of risks after a loss. Risk Management Case Study: School IPM Since children spend much of their time at school, it… Read more »

Dr. Tom Green of the IPM Institute of North America and Dr. Rebecca Baldwin of the University of Florida conducted Stop School Pests training for introductory IPM, custodial services and food services personnel at the NEA ESP Conference on March 24th. Participants received certificates for their respective training. The NEA ESP conference is the premier… Read more »

NRCS administers Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) through both national and state grant competitions. The national competition closed in late February but in 2018, 20 states are offering CIG funding opportunities and many state competitions are still open. These state CIG competitions target small projects (maximum award size is $75,000) that address natural resource concerns at… Read more »

EPA is requesting public comment on revised respirator descriptions for pesticide labels. EPA is making these revisions, with the encouragement of state regulatory agencies, as part of the efforts to: Bring the respirator descriptions on pesticide labels into conformance with the current National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) respirator language; Ensure that pesticide… Read more »

The low economic income areas of New Orleans and New York City have some of highest childhood asthma burdens. At the 2018 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Congress in Orlando, FL,  Felicia A. Rabito, PhD, an epidemiologist Associate Professor at Tulane University, described strong preliminary clinically significant data supporting single intervention (cockroach… Read more »

Proposals are due March 15, 2018 Up to $3 million in funding for locally-focused environmental education grants is now available. EPA expects to award three to four grants in each of EPA’s ten Regions, for no less than $50,000 and no more than $100,000 each, for a total of 30-35 grants nationwide. Proposals are due… Read more »

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today awarded grants to support the initial development of innovative ideas in agriculture and food production through the Exploratory Research Grants (ERG) program. Funding is made possible through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill…. Read more »